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«Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.»
Author: Doctor Who | About: Rest | Keywords: weary
«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
«Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.»
«Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant (Author, Cartoonist) | About: Rest | Keywords: complete, possibly, urgent
«It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Rest, Work | Keywords: I go
«Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.»
«Rest: the sweet sauce of labor»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Rest | Keywords: sauce, sauces, The Sweet
«I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had»
Author: Thomas Mann (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Rest, Sleep | Keywords: rested, Three Weeks, weeks
«I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | About: Rest | Keywords: dared, done for, resting, The C

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